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Nintendo have announced Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U, a 3D Mario game that will be similar in concept to Super Mario 3D Land, which combined the 2D and 3D styles of play. Super Mario 3D World will feature four playable characters—Mario, Lu...

Pokémon X and Pokémon Y have added a new type to the list of Pokémon types—the Fairy type. It looks like some Pokémon are being re-classified into Fairy type for the two games. Take a look at them below: Pokémon X and Pokémon Y will launch wor...

The official YouTube channel for the Higurashi Project began streaming the second trailer for the new Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku ~Outbreak~ anime on Tuesday. The new anime adapts the short story "Higurashi Outbreak" by Higurashi no Naku Koro n...

Neither Arc System Works nor Aksys have announced BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma for release in North America yet, but the game has an English trailer, complete with an ESRB notice up on the PlayStation YouTube account: Video game stories from other...

Following "Shining Moon Powder" which is scheduled to be released in October this year, Bandai Premium will also start accepting pre-orders for "Miracle Romance Nail Collection," the second product from its real cosmetic brand "Miracle Romance" in...

The Japan Toy Association announced the winners of the sixth annual Japan Toy Award in the press conference for International Tokyo Toy Show 2013 at Tokyo Kokusai Forum today on June 11th. A group of judges from the Japanese toy industry (departme...

Ever wondered what it's like to actually attend an E3 press conference? This year SGCafe was able to sneak into the Sony pre-E3 press conference and, as we found out, the experience is pretty similar to what you see on the livestream.

As of Sunday (June 9th), Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea is now the highest-grossing Detective Conan movie with 3,509,406,150 yen (about US$35,553,793) in box office revenue. The movie sold 2,915,894 tickets in the 51 days since it...

Kingdom Hearts III is coming to PlayStation 4, Square Enix announced at the Sony E3 press conference this evening. Square did not specify whether the game is exclusive to PS4. Video game stories from other sites on the web.

Atlus 3DS RPG arrives on July 16 in N. America A pair of new trailers for the Nintendo 3DS role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei IV preview more of the English dub: The game will ship in North America on July 16.

Sony has announced at its pre-E3 press conference that the PlayStation 4 next-generation video games console will launch in multiple territories around the world this holiday season – at US$399, 399 Euros, or 349 pounds, depending on the region.

Nintendo shared a bunch of new features for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y in its currently ongoing Nintendo Direct E3 presentation, including a concrete release date. The Nintendo 3DS pair will launch worldwide on October 12.

TLC will be releasing a special 20th anniversary greatest hits album and Namie Amuro will be featured on one of the new tracks! They will be recording a new version of one of TLC's biggest hits "Waterfalls".

The new Zelda game for 3DS has a new name—and a new trailer. Nintendo are calling it The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and you can watch a trailer for it below: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is slated for release this ho...

Good Smile Company has announced that their latest figures are now finally up for pre-order. Their new IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Stage 02 nendroid petites, A new Merona nendroid from Queen's Blade as well as FREEing's new 1/4 Sora Takanashi figure!

HD version of Kingdom Hearts III announcement trailer also posted The official PlayStation YouTube channel began streaming the E3 trailer for Kingdom Hearts HD 1. 5 Remix on Tuesday, which features remastered footage from Kingdom Hearts Final Mix,...

The Cinema Today website began streaming the full trailer for the upcoming Gekijō-ban Toriko Bishokushin no Special Menu film on Tuesday. The trailer features the theme song "Gōshoku My Way! ! " by Akira Kushida.

Promo photo for Kiki's Delivery Service live action movie If you are looking to re-live nostalgia, photos and press event footage for "Kiki's Delivery Service" Live-Action has been revealed. As we had reported on the live-action in April, princip...

I think I need to get myself checked up, because I haven't played any of the Touhou games yet. As for the reasoning behind my latest sin, the answer is unknown. For now, I will blame time, which is a factor that affects many people when it comes t...

Sony showed off the PlayStation 4's new controller at their PS4 reveal back in March, but they didn't show the console itself. At their E3 press conference this evening, though, they gave a first look at what the system looks like.

Gaming, News | June 11, 2013 by Wolfen | It's that time of the year again, another Electronics Entertainment Expo (A. K. A E3). We've got the big three briefing the world on new games, consoles and services, and in light of it all, I'll be doing a...

Amazon Japan recently updated their pre-order page for the Kamen Rider W Blu-rayBOX 1 set. Said Blu-ray box set will contain episodes 1-16 of the Kamen Rider W TV series. The first press release of the Kamen Rider W Blu-rayBOX 1 one include a spec...

Microsoft were the first company to host their pre-E3 conference this year, and boy did they take advantage of that privilege. To start off this E3, Microsoft packed their conference with everything they had and managed to do it all without losing...

Today's Japan Photo: Intersecting Junctions For Today's Japan Photo, we take a look at this interesting capture of many roads intersecting across one another at the Nishisemba junction of Hanshin Expressway.

Exactly 30 years ago, June 11, 1983, video game history was made as Capcom Co. , LTD. was established. From then on, they charged through with hit after hit. They innovated the fighting game genre by introducing COMBOS in 'Street Fighter II', gave...

Warner Bros. have revealed a brand new trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins, featuring gamplay footage from the game. Batman: Arkham Origins will be out this October on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.

Both the Ghost in the Shell movies and television shows have always featured some pretty amazing, haunting music. Although I'm still not comfortable with the not so Shirow looking redesign, but the new video from Cornelius has me interested.

A second extended preview of Highschool DxD New offers a look at this summer's second season of the supernatural harem anime, set to Larval Stage Planning theme "Sympathy. " New, kicking off July 7th, will feature Risa Taneda (From the New Wor...

It has been announced that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be released on Aug. 27. The game will be released for the PC and PS3. Linking up with the release date announcement, pre-orders for the game began.

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